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I shall enjoy watching this when it screens but I'm not tempted to participate - the pressure of getting it right would be too much! Would that my veg patch ever looked like the promotional photo!! (I wish!)

It does seem tempting but then I read the 'cultivate a perfect carrot' bit...what??? The reason I love to grow my own so much is that everything tastes great...not because it looks like something out of a supermarket....what would they class as perfection??? As for making award winning anything.,..this is a matter of taste and over the years I have pretty much thrown all recipes out the window and cook to my families tastes. I think I would end up having rows with the producers..lol. I will watch it when it's aired th0oough purely so I can look out for some of their takes on the things I didn't like about it in the first place!!

A few years ago when we had manure problems - I was on Gardeners' World and our local Politics Show, Victoria.as well as various local radio spots, For GW we were four hours recording what ended up as a few minutes it was edited down to. Goodness knows how long your would record for a whole programme!!!

I don't think I could ever participate in something like this. I takes lot of nerves and self control to listen somebody judging your not perfect carrots and not smacking them in the face. I actually hate false perfection..especially in gardening. I love my half eaten, crocked, two legged carrots..and I'm sure they taste better than the perfect market ones :)

Our garden was on a gardening program years ago. What was fascinating was to see how they "cheated". For instance there were 2 large pots they liked and moved all the time so they were in just about every frame. I asked won't the viewers notice? The interviewer answered you might have 20 of those pots - they don't know you just have two! As in your case Sue, they filmed from 7 AM to 5 PM for about 20 minutes on the program. Also, they paid me one dollar. There was a legal requirement that I be paid.

I think a gardener would notice mobile pots, Alain. I didn't get ant payment but didn't mind as it was to make people aware of a problem, We kept having to do retakes because a plane flew over or my hair blew in front of my face etc.

Thanks for flagging this up, I shall look forward to watching. But no way could I ever take part. Even if I had the skills, which I don't, I could not stand the process of recording and having to comply with someone else's view of 'perfect'. I agree, for me it is all about the taste, lack of bugs, and of course that it is so good for us:)

Such sensible people commenting. So not everyone is taken in by the media. They follow their own agenda, and anyone who thinks otherwise is in for a rude awakening. Did you see that "Allotment Wars" programme?

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